No really...think about it....can you prove you actually exist?
2007-03-29 10:29:48 · 25 answers · asked by thinking-guru 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Wait a minute! Don't answer the question w/ a question (like: Prove I don't exist?)
2007-03-29 10:38:13 · update #1
A college professor, an avowed Atheist, was teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he flatly stated he was going to prove there was no God. Addressing the ceiling he shouted:
"God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!" The lecture room fell silent. You could have heard a pin fall. Ten minutes went by. Again he taunted God, saying, "Here I am, God. I'm still waiting."
His countdown got down to the last couple of minutes when a student, newly registered in the class - walked up to the professor, hit him and sent him tumbling from his lofty platform. The professor was out cold! At first, the students were shocked and babbled in confusion. The student took a seat in the front row and sat silent. The class fell silent... waiting.
Eventually, the professor came to, shaken. He looked at the student in the front row. When the professor regained his senses and could speak he asked: "What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?" And the student replied, "God was busy. He sent me."
2007-03-29 10:46:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
How do you define 'exist'? But i'll just assume that you mean in real-life not in a dream...yes you can prove that you exist. A great philosopher once stated 'I think therefore i am.' Have you ever felt or wondered if you were in a dream, and how you could tell if it was a dream or not...logically not by pinching b/c most ppl have sensations in dreams. Well in dreams have you ever noticed that you can't think? you can't have a train of thoughts like when you're awake. So going off of that...but you would have to define exist...in a dream? in my school? in the world? where?
2007-03-29 10:50:31 · answer #2 · answered by Person 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I must exist because I just read and am answering your question in which you want me to prove that I exist. I exist because I can phisically interact with the world around me.
2007-03-29 10:42:13 · answer #3 · answered by drummerofaband 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is simple, here is the answer: I know I am real, and thats all I can be sure of. I cannot prove you exist, but you are *real* to me. In other words, I can sense you, that is why you are real. But to know if something truly exists, you must be the creator of it, and nothing in the physical universe can create (first law of thermodynamics). And The reason why no one can truly know if they exist, is because for all they know, their thoughts and actions can be the aftermath of a simulation run by a program they are apart of (the Matrix Theory). SO, they can only prove that they are real, and thats all that matters in the physical world.
But as for my Christian aspect of it, you just have to have faith in God's trust, God's Love, God's ability to create FreeWill...Have complete faith in God.
2007-03-29 10:46:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, therefore I am....
If am able to think I exist... If you were able to ask a question that I can see... then you exist.... Why does everything has to be an illusion for some of the people in Yahoo! Answers?
Things exist... If everything and anything is just a bunch of illusions, then who is having them? he surely exists then...
Hope that helps!
CHRIS
2007-03-29 10:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by CRA 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question is invalid because "proofs" only exist withing the mathematical world. Here in real life, people rely on evidence. And I can provide you with tonnes of evidence that I exist. Drop the word "proof", it's a terribly misused word.
2007-03-29 10:41:43 · answer #6 · answered by Brian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm purely a man or woman with constrained perceptions, merely like each physique else. I have faith God does exist, yet no longer in any anthropomorphic sense that would desire to be waiting to be shown or measured scientifically. This being the main probable reason for the a protracted time old debate, I end that i will no longer supply any gratifying answer that would desire to persuade you the two way.
2016-12-19 16:27:12 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's just too much work, lol.
I'm aware of myself.
I think; therefore, I am.
I'm typing this to you.
If it's all an illusion or a dream, it's one helluva dream.
I've read some very persuasive philosophical treatises on this topic, but at the moment, I don't have the energy to go searching for them.
Sorry that my hedonism is overriding my intellectualism.
2007-03-29 12:12:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trick here is to ask you the same question!0!
Are you a solipsist? So am I.
So I guess that makes two of us!0!
So only you and I exist so far!0!
Anybody else a solipsist?
Get over it!0!
Sapere aude!
2007-03-29 11:00:15 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If nothing else, I am an entity which can be referred to. I am distinguishable from other things, and that distinction is the minimum of my existance. Even if everything is an illusion, I MUST exist as that identifiable PART of that illusion.
2007-03-29 11:05:32 · answer #10 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋